eBay: Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress

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B-17G-40-VE 42-97949 Delivered Denver 13/4/44; Cheyenne 1/5/44; Hunter 14/5/44; Dow Fd 23/4/44; Assigned 568BS/390BG [BI-B] Framlingham 11/6/44; PROBLEM CHILD; transferred 358BS/303BG VK-O , Triangle C Molesworth 19/6/44; Returned to the USA Bradley 10/7/45; 4185 BU Independence 12/7/45; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Kingman 17/12/45.



Org. Photo: 303rd Bomb Group B-17 Bomber (#42-97949) Parked on Airfield!!! | eBay

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B-17G-60-DL 44-6650 (?) Delivered Lincoln 5/10/44; Grenier 16/10/44; Assigned 20BS/2BG Amendola 24/10/44; Returned to the USA Bradley 15/6/45; Sth Plains 19/6/45; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Kingman 7/12/45.

2000TH BUILT



NEW 6 X 4 PHOTO WW2 USAAF B 17 FLYING FORTRESS 2000TH BUILT 172 | eBay

NEW 6 X 4 PHOTO WW2 USAAF. Condition is New.
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Vega B-17F-35-VE Fortress 42-5942 F-VE (388th BG, 563rd BS, "Sky Shy/Wenatchee Special") shot down by Hptm Werner Schroer in Bf 109G-6 of JG 27/II Stab near Ulm, Germany Sep 6, 1943, Stuttgart, Germany. MACR 3121. 1 KIA, 1 died of injuries, 8 POW.











Bowen Crew

Pilot M. Bowen
Copilot W. W. Woods
Navigator A. E. Copeland
Radio Operator J. H. Redmond
Engineer D. E. Wiesner
Bombardier E. W. Hasson
left Waist Gunner A. H. Smith
right Waist Gunner H. E. Richards
Tail Gunner J. Frankenfield
Ball Turret T. J. Czygier

S/Sgt. Redmond, who apparently had problems with his parachute, did NOT!!! leave the aircraft (at this point, as a result of my investigation, I am contrary to the MACR report). After his comrades had left the plane, he took the pilot's seat and flew the still burning Flying Fortress from Ulm / valley of the river Blau towards Stubersheim, Weiler ober Helfenstein. Referring to eye-witnesses, he circled Weiler ober Helfenstein (a small number of farms) 2-3 times for finding an appropriate touch-down area and approached to land in a flat angle with the landing gear down. Doing this, he apparently overlooked a mound of two meters height. The landing gear broke off, the craft hit the ground hard and slid over the meadow, where it broke to pieces. Due to this crash landing, S/Sgt. Redmond's head was thrown against the cockpit screen of the plane what caused him most severe head injuries (according to a contemporary witnesses, who also was pilot with the German Armed Forces, that landing was an aeronautical masterstroke).
Despite their fear of the still smoking wreckage, the local community members, like the farmer family, that lived just a few 100 meters away from the place of the disaster, hurried to the scene immediately, gave a first aid to the still alive, severely injured Redmond and recovered him from the wrecked cockpit. Redmond cried out loud for water all the time. The sister of the eye witness I talked to cared for the wounds and gave him something to drink. The doctor, who was called to the scene instantly, stated most severe head injuries and immediately induced S/Sgt. Redmond to be brought to the hospital of nearby Geislingen, where he died of his severe head injuries the next day." Lost B-17 on 6 september 1943 [Archive] - Luftwaffe and Allied Air Forces Discussion Forum


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B-17G-35-BO 42-32016 99th BG, 347th BS, Swamp Gal lost over Austria Dec 25, 1944. MACR 10704.

Story of crash 42-32016 / Swamp Gal | B-17 Bomber Flying Fortress – The Queen Of The Skies



Bill Brandon, Forman, Duncan, McReynolds, Dunn, Kuzan, Leffingwell, Eaton, Lynn H. Ostrander, Miller

*WWII photo- 99th Bomb Group- B 17 Bomber plane ACCIDENT w/ Nose Art- SWAMP GAL* | eBay

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B-17 mating season.
 
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YB-17A @ Langley Field, 1937. Source: My hard drive via "world war photos" as seen watermark in the pics. That's evidently where I got them.



My question is did that entire nose perspex rotate 360 deg. to allow the gun to fire at that angle as shown in the last pic?
 
Yes! Many pics of even the B-17B have the nose blister at the top or the bottom. Good thing that was changed before combat.
 
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